On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 05:37:41PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 06/26/2012 05:38 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:48:08PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > >>On 06/25/2012 10:38 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > >>>On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:55:35PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > >>>>On 06/25/2012 04:15 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>Because those architectures will draw their stacks directly from > >>>>>the page allocator, rather than the slab cache, we can directly > >>>>>pass __GFP_KMEMCG flag, and issue the corresponding free_pages. > >>>>> > >>>>>This code path is taken when the architecture doesn't define > >>>>>CONFIG_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR (only ia64 seems to), and has > >>>>>THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE. Luckily, most - if not all - of the > >>>>>remaining architectures fall in this category. > >>>>> > >>>>>This will guarantee that every stack page is accounted to the memcg > >>>>>the process currently lives on, and will have the allocations to fail > >>>>>if they go over limit. > >>>>> > >>>>>For the time being, I am defining a new variant of THREADINFO_GFP, not > >>>>>to mess with the other path. Once the slab is also tracked by memcg, > >>>>>we can get rid of that flag. > >>>>> > >>>>>Tested to successfully protect against :(){ :|:& };: > >>>>> > >>>>>Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>>>>CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> > >>>>>CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>>>>CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > >>>>>CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>>>>CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >>>>>CC: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>> > >>>Frederic, does this (with proper slab accounting added later) achieve > >>>what you wanted with the task counter? > >>> > >> > >>A note: Frederic may confirm, but I think he doesn't even need > >>the slab accounting to follow to achieve that goal. > > > >Limiting is enough. But that requires internal accounting. > > > Yes, but why the *slab* needs to get involved? > accounting task stack pages should be equivalent to what you > were doing, even without slab accounting. Right ? Yeah that alone should be fine. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>